A Wisconsin private school that asked fourth graders to list three good reasons for slavery and three bad ones is apologizing to parents after the mother of a black student posted the assignment on Facebook.

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says a bill that would allow developers to fill state wetlands without a permit should pass the chamber but the proposal could look different than what lawmakers have presented so far.

A federal judge blocked the Trump administration's plans to end the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which protects young people who were brought to the country illegally as children from deportation. An expert tells us what the latest debate over DACA means for undocumented immigrants and future immigration policy under Trump.

In 1913 a high school student in Menominee wrote a fairytale set in a local canyon-shaped park, and then submitted it to her school’s literary magazine. That century-old story has been resurrected in a new book called, The Devil’s Punchbowl , complete with steampunk-influenced illustrations by a UW-Stout professor. We...

Political observers are closely watching a special election in the 10th State Senate District of far western Wisconsin to see if a Democratic wave is building across the nation. GOP state Rep. Adam Jarchow is competing against Democratic medical examiner Patty Schachtner and Libertarian Brian Corriea.

The speaker at this year's Martin Luther King Jr. celebration in La Crosse is the granddaughter of one of the African-American female mathematicians working for NASA who gained notoriety from the book and movie "Hidden Figures." Duchess Harris has had a successful career of her own as an author, civil...

If there’s one place that represents a politically divided America, it’s Pepin County, Wisconsin, according to Politico reporter Michael Kruse. Since the 2016 presidential election, he says, the divide has only gotten deeper. Can neighbors bridge the gap?

Members of a state ethics panel have opted not to prosecute, or impose penalties against a state lawmaker, who had been accused of using his legislative social media accounts to promote his business...even though the panel found “reasonable suspicion” that state ethics laws were broken. That's according to a USA-TODAY Network-Wisconsin investigation, and a reporter joins us with the details.